Blankenship Cemetery

Locality: Roanoke County Temporal Period: 20th century

Realty Map: 98.04-3-22 Cultural Affiliation: Euro-American

USGS Map: Garden City Landform: Knoll

Grid Locus: F-8 Elevation: 1260 feet

UTM Easting: 593500 Aspect: Flat

UTM Northing: 4115380

Site Dimensions: 82 by 100 feet

Survey Date: 2/98

Survey Description: Site consists of a maintained family cemetery located adjacent to Route 6012, Marigold Circle. Cemetery contains a minimum of 27 interments including 14 marked by marble, granite, cement or metal grave markers and 13 marked by uninscribed fieldstone markers. On five of these graves the uninscribed fieldstone markers have fallen and are partially buried by grass. All graves are oriented from 90 though 105 degrees. Older stones are oriented around 90 degrees, while more recent stones exhibit greater range in orientation. A galvanized post and chain-link fence encloses the site. One uninscribed fieldstone is located on the southern fence line. This either marks another grave, or the cemetery boundary. A single discarded uninscribed fieldstone marker was observed just beyond the western fence line. Plantings include: yucca, roses, daffodils, and five young deciduous trees. Site was field inspected, photographed, and headstone inscriptions were transcribed and compared to previous site documentation. Site size was derived from local realty maps.

Field Notes: _x_Yes ___No

Photographs: _x_Yes ___No

Reference(s): Roanoke Valley Historical Society

1986 Roanoke County Graveyards Through 1920. Privately printed, RVHS, Roanoke.

Additional Comments: Assigned temporal period based on the 1913 through 1977 range of death dates observed on inscribed headstones. However, the presence of uninscribed fieldstone markers may indicate an earlier or later use of the site. Site is not marked on the USGS Garden City map sheet, but it is marked on realty maps. Reported site size was derived from realty maps. Pacing of horizontal extent of the fence lines provided an estimated size of 104 by 70 by 105 by 80 feet.

The Blankenship Cemetery was surveyed by the RVHS and documented in their report (1986: 18). The report provided biographical information transcribed from three headstones which predated 1921.

Marker Inscriptions:

Cuttie Kingery F.E. Blankenship Silvie Lena

Feb. 12, 1911 Born Aug. 13. 1907 Born Jan. 31

Aug. 27, 1913 Died Nov 21. 1918 1914 Died Nov.

(cement marker) 5 1917

(cement marker)

Christene Mary Susan Pearley Anna

Blankenship Blankenship Jordan

Born May 18, 1928 Born - 1888 Aug. 1, 1911

Died Sept. 11 1928 Died Mar. 24, 1940 Sept. 16, 1932

In God We Trust The Lord is my

Shepherd

Blankenship Cemetery (continued)

Christine Mary Susan Pearly Anna

Blankenship Blankenship Jordan

Born May 18, 1928 Born - 1888 Aug. 1, 1911

Died Sept. 11 1928 Died Mar. 24, 1940 Sept. 16, 1932

In God We Trust The Lord is my

Shepard

Mary Susan Scott Lewis James M. Bowles Elizabeth Bowles

Born 1881 Born 1883 Oct. 28, 1871 July 18, 1874

Died 1940 Died 1971 Sept. 11, 1964 April 17, 1941

Blankenship

D.H. Hicks Mother Henry D. Blankenship

Born Gone to live with Jesus 1903 1967

Aug. 15, 1884 Doshie Hicks Lyle (metal marker and wood

Died Feb. 14, Apr. 25, cross at head of grave;

Aug. 2, 1933 1888 1937 uninscribed fieldstone

He died as he lived - marker and cast cement

A Christian brick inscribed “Father”

(stones has fallen & at foot of grave.

broken)

James Elbert Jordan Jr.

S SGT US Air Force

World War II Korea

1927 1977

(metal military plaque)

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